Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small asteroid was detected early Tuesday over northern Siberia on its collision course with Earth. The European Space Agency ...

So, by that standard, could a similar fate await humanity in the not-so-distant future? Well, as the saying goes, all good ...

The massive asteroid that brought about the end of the reign of the dinosaurs when it crashed into Earth 66m years ago was not a one-off, researchers say. Detailed scans of an underwater crater off ...

The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness. By Katrina Miller In humanity’s latest bid to avoid going the ...

It was only a few days ago that a certain fear-mongering website named, ahem, Ars Technica published an article about the prospect of a killer asteroid striking the planet Earth in the year 2032. At ...

Typically, astronomers identify comets by their distinct atmospheres, or comae, and their tails, which are created as the sun ...

It doesn't take a planetary catastrophe to get scientists' attention. Sometimes a space rock roughly the size of a 15-story ...

If an asteroid was ever threatening Earth, the best way to stop it might be with a nuclear explosion, according to a new ...

An asteroid discovered late last year is continuing to stir public interest as its odds of striking planet Earth less than eight years from now continue to increase. Two weeks ago, when Ars first ...

Rocks knocked off Dimorphos could come back to bite us in a few years—in the form of harmless meteors. Reading time 2 minutes In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully ...